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Up-Level Your ELA Skill Review with this Mini Game Show 

If you’re looking for an ELA Skill Review game that won’t take a lot of time or prep, then you’ll love this Mini Game Show!

I’m always looking for great review games for students that are engaging, competitive, and cover a variety of ELA skills especially in the spring as we’re gearing up for national/state testing time. 

It’s really hard to gauge how students will do in test-related environments when they are being asked about a variety of different skills, so I love when I can find some ELA skill review games that cover a variety of ELA skills, are self-checking, and can act as a formative assessment as I try to figure out what my students need more work on.

That is why I LOVE this ELA Skill Review Mini Game Show. 

What is the ELA Skill Review Mini Game Show

This Mini Game Show is a quick, jeopardy-style game that asks students to answer 3 questions in 5 different ELA skill categories.

  • Story Structure
  • Figurative Language
  • Text Structure
  • Author’s Purpose
  • Vocabulary

These ELA skills are frequently asked about on standards-based assessments, and students need a lot of practice with these types of questions.

One of my favorite parts of the Mini Game Show is that all of the questions are asked either in passage format or in context, meaning that students have to pull information and context clues from the texts to answer the questions, similar to the way they will have to on standardized tests.

Up-Level Your ELA Skill Review with this Mini Game Show

The ELA Skill Review Mini Game Show is a smaller version of the many full-sized Game Shows that we have in the Fun in 5th Grade Store.

In our full-sized visions of the game, students will be asked 5 questions for each of the 5 categories, but in the mini version of the game, there are only 3 questions per category. This makes the game much quicker and perfect for a quick review or to use on a day when the reading block is shorter than usual.

How to Play

To play, you can either use the Google Slides version of the game or the PowerPoint version. If you’re using the PowerPoint version and installing the macros, you’ll be able to use the digital scoreboard built into the game.

To get started, students will pick a category and question value (100, 200, 300, 400, 500). By clicking on the point value they chose, you’ll be automatically taken to a question. 

A benefit of the way this game is designed is that the questions and answers are not created on the same slide, so the questions can be projected for students to look at.

Once students have worked through the question and presented an answer, the teacher will click the ‘answer’ button at the bottom of the slide and it will immediately present the correct answer to the question. This means the students get immediate feedback!

If you’re using the digital scoreboard, you can then click on the ‘scoreboard’ button at the bottom of the slide to swiftly move to the scoreboard page, where you can click the buttons to either add or take away points from the student’s (or team’s) total. 

The play will then continue in the same manner until all questions are answered.

Individual, Small Group, and Whole Group Ideas

These games can be used in a variety of ways. You are only limited by your imagination. Here are a few ideas for using these game shows in small groups.

  • Use during center rotations with a laptop and whiteboards.
    • Set students up with the game and a way to record answers.
    • Students then take turns choosing the category and point value.
    • All students will answer EVERY question on their whiteboards.
    • Then, when all students have an answer, they’ll click the ‘answer’ button to reveal the right answer.
    • If correct, they’ll go to the scoreboard and adjust all players’ totals as needed.
  • Give the game to a single student to use as a review. They will click through the questions to test their knowledge.
  • Use during whole-group in a team-based setting.
    • Put students into up to 6 groups.
    • Set students up with a way to record their answers (I like using whiteboards).
    • Groups will take turns picking a category and point value.
    • All students will answer on their whiteboards.
    • Then, the students will discuss their individual answers with their group to develop a final answer.
    • Students will show their final answer to the teacher.
    • After checking the right answer, the teacher will assign or remove points on the group’s scoreboard as needed.
  • Print off the slides to reuse along with one of the ideas in this post!
Up-Level Your ELA Skill Review with this Mini Game Show

This ELA Skills Review Mini Game Show is the perfect addition to a busy day when you want students to get some practice but you don’t want to have to prep or assess any assignments. 

The game may act as a good formative assessment as you gauge where your students are in relation to the category topics, and the variety of questions and the way the questions are asked help students prepare for being asked similar-style questions on standardized tests. 

We truly hope this ELA Skill Review Mini Game Show will make your planning less chaotic and more fun!

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